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1. she ignored everything but zeroed in on one thing; so all that i said in that post that was reasonable was completely ignored by her in her post

2. she then takes the employer's side as usual - on an employee dominated board - to get a rib out of posters here; if you've followed her posts, you'll see that employers can rarely do wrong in her eyes and employees can rarely do right

3. She knows and I know - and she knows that I know - thatnot once in my post did i mention that my student loans are "the employers problem." she is trolling by making stuff up because her life is so empty she has to put words in my mouth to attack the employee side

4. Unless she is reaaaaaaally slow and dense, she knows that for an employer to get a well-educated employee from a top school, that that employee will have had to incur student loans 95% of the time; so, for her to say that student loans "are not the employer's problem" means that she is either trolling or she has the mental capacity of a peanut; to even use the words "not the employer's problem" shows that she can't even frame the issue correctly. those words are so loaded that it just oozes trolling.

Average debt from a top 100 school is usually around 15k which really has little impact.

Indeed. I am sooooooo glad I don't have that problem. A friend of mine graduated with a 4 year degree in sports medicine or something and has a job working at Savannah State University in Georgia. Savannah is a very low COL area with jobs that pay little to nothing. He's making just about the same there with his degree that I'm making out here without a degree.

He told me he owes $100k and has a payment in the neighborhood of $700 a month. How you run up debt that high I have no idea, but it sucks to be him. That's a monthly expense I'm glad I don't have.

I suppose one argue cost of living and definition of middle class determines the answer to the op question. However, it seems obtuse and pedantic to do so unless we're referring to specific city sectors. I'd think the answers is a resounding "yes you can live on that level of income comfortably". In fact, I find it sad that's not the case. Wouldn't the cost of housing be the primary impediment to middle class lifestyle though? So, really, if you're not too fussy about your living quarters, you shouldn't have an issue.

$60,000 seems like a lot but after all the deductions from either bills, benifits or taxes your take away is not that much. I make about that much a year and I am a single dad of one. Ultimately we get by however if I had additional income... say $15,000 more, things would be very comfortable...the good thing is that I'm striving to get there and hopefully after I complete all my schooling I will be a contender to make those figures...good luck to all of you...

I'm 32k in the hole, however, student loans is the only debt I have. I consider myself lucky I don't have other monthly payments such as mortgages or car loans I'm already used to living frugally, my husband and I have lived on $15,000/year just fine. If I ever get a job that pays decent, similarly what the OP is getting, I'll pay off my loans easy-peasy! Hopefully I don't have kids then

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